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Bolgiano's "Big Crop" Seeds 



Wholesale Prices For Farmers And Market Gardeners 1915 

 1818 JANUARY 1st, 1915 1915 



"John Baer^' Tomato The Earnest and Best Tomato on Earth ^'^f^^^'''' 



1st — "John Baer" Tomato produces large, beautiful, solid shipping Tomatoes in 30 days from large, 

 strong, well matured plants grown in Veneer or Paper bands, with roots undisturbed. 



2nd — "John Baer" Tomato produces the most perfect High Crown Tomatoes ever grown, entirely- 

 free from core. 



3rd — "John Baer" Tomato produces an enormous crop of Tomatoes, 50 to 100 fruit to each plant. 



4th — Every "John Baer" Tomato ripens evenly, right up to the stem. 



5th — No cripples, no scalds, no blight, no cracked, no wrinkled, no one-sided, uneven, scarred 

 fruit. When dead ripe "John Baer" Tomato will not burst. 



Cth — "John Baer" Tomato has a wonderful glistening, brilliant, bright red color. 



7th — "John Baer" Tomato has a mild deliciously sweet flavor. The finest flavor you ever tasted. 



8th — "John Baer" Tomato is almost seedless, it requires 6 to 8 bushel of "John Baer" Tomatoes to 

 make one pound of seed, a marvelous Stem Setter, often ten fruit in first cluster, solid and meaty. 



9th — "John Baer" Tomato has just enough foliage — will stand plenty of manuring without going 

 to vine. Set plants 3x3 J feet. 

 10th — "John Baer" Tomato is the most perfect shipping Tomato ever grown — 24 fruit exactly fill a 



six carrier basket. 

 11th — Bach beautiful "John Baer" Tomato weighs about 6 J ounces. 



12th — "John Baer" Tomato Seed was saved only by John Baer, the originator, who personally 

 selected and picked every Tomato from which he saved this seed, selecting only the most beau- 

 tiful, perfect fruit of the Early Stem Set Clusters. 

 -2th — "John Baer" Tomato is the offspring of two marvelous Tomatoes — One Great Specialist hav- 

 ing devoted 10 years in selecting and improving one parent and Another Expert devoted Ave 

 years in selecting and improving the other parent. The "John Baer" Tomato is therefore the 

 result of Fifteen Generations of Improvement and Selection for earliness, quality, shape, fruit, 

 color and shipping quality. 

 14th — ^As a Packing Tomato, "John Baer" is a miracle, they all pack Fancy, no seconds, and all 

 pack whole. Peelers can prepare three bushels "John Baer" Tomatoes to one bushel of any 

 other Tomato. Being such a tremendous yielder a bushel of "John Baer" Tomato can be 

 gathered in one-third the time of any other Tomato. A large Baltimore Tomato Paeker had 

 all the "John Baer" Tomatoes he could secure packed separately, running them through a spe- 

 cial process for his fanciest trade and his own private use. 



Prices: Pkt., 25 and 50c.; i oz., 75c.: i oz., $1.00; oz., $2.00; J lb., $7.50; pound, $25.00. 



1818 



J. BOLGIANO & SON 



1915 



Tills Is Our 97th Year 



Seed Growers, Merchants, Importers, Manufacturers, 



PRATT, LIGHT AND ELLICOTT STREETS, BALTIMORE, MD. 



Immense New Wzirehouses and Pier Montgomery St., Key Highway and the Baltimore Harbor 



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